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04/12/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a deliberate exercise in swooning obscurity. You either go with its considerable sensory powers or you scratch a groove on your head." |
| 2. |
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01/25/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a striking and largely apt juxtaposition of tone and style.... reminds us how vulnerable even the lowest forms of culture are to the pressures of growing up." |
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01/04/13 |
Very Good |
 "...an account of greed, betrayal, culpability and self-serving moral relativism... finds its most menacing intrigue in the high-stakes, multimillion-dollar art world of New York." |
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11/09/12 |
Moderate |
 "Refn's original worked because it treated careworn crime-movie cliché from the inside out.... Prieto's is peddling old product in a new baggie." |
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10/12/12 |
Moderate |
 "The distinction is the 21st-century, celebrity-obsessed setting and neat viral riff on the digital piracy era, but otherwise the film is itself a carrier of largely borrowed DNA." |
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09/28/12 |
Very Good |
 "...celebrates the low-down raunchiness of girls being girls among girls, while delivering a snap-crackle-and-pop music catharsis.... Yes, rock is dead, but long live showbiz." |
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09/28/12 |
Very Good |
 "Gere gets the role he has been suiting up for ever since he was first designer-dressed for a murder rap in 'American Gigolo.' " |
| 8. |
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08/31/12 |
Moderate |
 "...you've got to wonder at all that strangely unresolved homoerotic tension at work, especially since the women do seem to fall genuinely in love with each other..." |
| 9. |
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08/17/12 |
Very Good |
 "Irony doesn't come much bitterer than finding yourself famous for founding Alcoholics Anonymous. It's this Bill Wilson who eventually emerges so forcefully and poignantly..." |
| 10. |
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02/04/11 |
Very Good |
 "...an inside-out study of pride, resistance and righteous revolt.... Up until the final moments, it's a quiet revolt, as concerned with the daily business of scrounging and survival as it is taking back the land." |
| 11. |
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11/19/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...it's the coolness of Gibney's account of the possibly systematic sabotaging of Spitzer's career that makes it such transfixing viewing." |
| 12. |
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10/01/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...gamely narrated by Dustin Hoffman, exploits to considerable crowd-pleasing effect: baseball is ultimately greater than any of the individual differences of its players." |
| 13. |
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10/01/10 |
Moderate |
 "...a tipsy wedding of low hijinks and tiptoe-tense suspense stretches... you wish it would just sneak off in the desert night and become its own movie altogether." |
| 14. |
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10/01/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the sheer immensity of the dragon to be slain may ultimately leave you feeling as helplessly prone to magical wishing as Canada himself was as a boy." |
| 15. |
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09/30/10 |
Moderate |
 "...provides some diverting information by way of David Suzuki's background and upbringing... a lavish, lovely and rather earnestly dull tribute of a movie." |
| 16. |
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08/27/10 |
Very Good |
 "Not exactly buoyant stuff, but the sheer, obstinate sure-handedness of Solondz's method is nothing short of distinctive.... his style is bedrock solid." |
| 17. |
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08/13/10 |
Moderate |
 "...an epic of surface mayhem.... careens through sequential incidents of violence. He beats, shoots, leaves.... like a trailer desperately in search of its own movie." |
| 18. |
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07/30/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...one is left with little hope that anything can bring us back from the brink of such a looming, life-sucking abyss." |
| 19. |
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07/09/10 |
Moderate |
 "...a much more sober, scaled-down and businesslike affair than its predecessor. Not any less compelling or occasionally ridiculous, just rather less flamboyantly so." |
